“A battle” by Thomas Stothard is a painting full of expression. The name is so simple but the painting so very emotion full. In the middle of the chaos of the war, there’s one white horrified horse standing with fear. oEverything around the horse ignores the horse and do its own business. charging，swinging，stomping and screaming.
Thomas Stothard, 17 August 1755 – 27 April 1834. His works are all normally about war and Intemperance. The painting “a war” is one of his famous war paintings. The painting gives you a chill after really understanding the whole painting. The pure, naïve part of the world is so small in the war. The war is overcoming the last pure of the word. It gives you a feeling of hopeless, dark, chaos and sad. It perfectly reflected the war on his painting, makes you realize what did it feel like to live in a period of war.
The painter wants people at that time and the future to know how terrible is war. every single battle is deaths of hundreds of man and cries of thousands of women and children.
War is the worst solution of anything, do not forget the scar of the war after it is healed. we should remember it well and not start another one.
